And Qutaybah ibn Sa‘id and Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Malik al-Umawi narrated to us, both saying: Abu ‘Awanah narrated to us. And Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna and Ibn Bashshar narrated to us, both saying: Mu‘adh ibn Hisham narrated to us, my father narrated to us, both of them from Qatadah, from Zurarah ibn Awfa, from ‘Imran ibn Husayn, from the Prophet, peace be upon him, this hadith: "The best of this ummah is the generation in which I was sent, then those who follow them." In the hadith of Abu ‘Awanah, he added: He said, "And Allah knows best whether he mentioned the third or not," similar to the hadith of Zahdam from ‘Imran. And in the hadith of Hisham from Qatadah, he added: "And they will take oaths without being asked to swear."